Cybersecurity issue shuts down Regina Co-op cardlock stations

Several local retail Co-ops and cardlock stations are out of service in Regina as a result of a cybersecurity issue, according to Federated Co-operatives Limited.

The outages have been reported since Wednesday.

“Federated Co-operatives Limited is experiencing a cybersecurity incident that is impacting some internal and customer facing systems at local retail Co-ops and cardlock fuel locations,” said a statement from Regina’s Co-op director of communications, Brad Delorey.

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Sherwood Co-op said on Facebook that it is experiencing a system-wide “unplanned IT service outage,” and that its website is offline.

Co-op said the issue is under investigation.

“As a precaution we have shut down some of our systems and brought in third party experts,” Delorey said.

“We regret that this outage has occurred and we thank Co-op members and customers for their patience as our teams work to resolve the issue.”